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Lebanon

12th December 2015 Today was a journey with Ali Ayoub Eva Bartlett Ajamu Baraka Jacob Cohen and Glen Ford, through the maze of the streets of Bourj Barjneh Palestinian camp in Lebanon. Home to 19,000 Palestinians until the proxy conflict in Syria that has driven a further 25,000 displaced Palestinians and Syrians into the…

“Grand Liban” or Grand Lebanon ie Lebanon in its current internationally-acknowledged state borders, is the love-child of France and a byproduct of the infamous Sykes-Picot Accord that decimated the Levant to first partition it between France and Britain, and to break it up further before granting it its independence. The French pledged to their Lebanese…